Better stock up on food if you're not vaxxed

[packman]

Grocery store, picking up some canned soups and women said, "Better get a lot. Biden is going to make it a law that you have to show your vaccination card to buy food sometime soon."

"What", I replied.

"True, get all the can goods you can, rice and stuff that won't rot and stock-up." I noticed her shopping cart full of non-perishable . Cans, paper products, cereal and such.

I replied that I got my two shots, plus booster- smiled as much as an evil smile as I could muster and said,

"They're having a meat sale today , shame you can't stock up on that"

[MontanaMama]

1. Idiots.

They’re dangerous to themselves and others.

[vanlassie]

2. My God the Stupid Burns.

[LoisB]

3. The fact that she said "Biden is going to make it a law" shows how much she knows about

anything. Biden does not/can not "make laws".

[Mr.Bill]

11. And so far, judges won't even

uphold most mandates for health care workers to be vaccinated.

[LoisB]

13. Yep. Crazy.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Yep. Beat me to it.

The proper response should have been, "Take a fucking civics class. Joe Biden is no longer a Senator, and cannot write laws. He can only sign into laws the bills that are put on his desk by Congress."

[RobinA]

43. Yeah, I Love Encounters

with people like this. It gives me a chance allow my inner pedant a small workout as she explains in measured tones the role of the President in such matters. I try to offer actual facts as a public service. If nothing else, it shuts people up.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. You can still use curbside pickup

[Mike Nelson]

5. One I heard...

... for years was, "Obama's going to take away everyone's guns!" I had fun with this right-winger Jack. My greeting was. "Hey, Jack, has Obama taken away your guns, yet?" He never showed up to take a single gun from Jack.

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Why wouldn't someone be able to stock up on meat?

What am I missing? Most people have freezers.

[spike jones]

7. In a long event with the power off, the stored meat would spoil.

[BlackSkimmer]

15. Oh, I thought she was just worried about not shopping without a card lol.

I didn’t know she had a power shortage scenario in there too.

[madville]

36. Yeah that confused me too

I have like 250 pounds on venison and meat bought on sale in my freezer right now lol.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. She's the type with all closets as well as her freezer full of Obama light bulbs

Dim wit

[TrogL]

19. I stocked up on light bulbs

I've still got a dozen sitting in the closet from when I upgraded to halogen. Then I had a bunch of halogen from when I upgraded to smart LED but gave them to a friend. I've got a couple of spare LED's but thst's only because they were cheaper by the case.

My grocery store has security at the door to keep anti-maskers out (there are few). The Alberta Government tracks all the health records. They've got an app that generates a QR code of your vaccination status you krep on your phone or print out. Public eteries have another app that reads them.

[IronLionZion]

9. Many paranoid prepper types have big chest freezers

full of frozen meat and other foods.

[maryellen99]

27. They and trump supporters were the ones who caused the grocery store runs nt

[Ford_Prefect]

32. What are they gonna do when the next big storm turns off the electricity?

That is not the joke you may imagine it to be. The scale and power of the storms last year and this are not to be taken lightly. Add to that they are hitting the middle of Trump country.

[IronLionZion]

33. Sell it to their hungry neighbors

at a huge markup

That whole concept baffles me. I'm a city mouse and most of the apartment dwellers here don't have space or the mindset to hoard things.

[bluecollar2]

39. I've gone close to 2 months without power from the grid

But I live in hurricane country so I have a generator capable of running the freezer and refrigerator.

It's not fun, but it can be done.

[Aviation Pro]

10. Who the fuck are these randos everyone seems to run into

Who can't keep their gums from banging together? I never seem to run into these fucking morons.

[BlackSkimmer]

16. I know, right? DUers sure seem to have a lot of these grocery store encounters of the strange kind.

Lol. These never happen to me.

[Jedi Guy]

21. I've noticed quite a few of those stories popping up lately.

Thus far, at least, those relating such tales have refrained from adding "and then all the people in the store started clapping" at the end.

[BlackSkimmer]

23. It seems to go in phases.

The mask stories seem to be fading out, but I’ve noticed a recent resurgence of trumpian encounter stories- the kind with large flags, tailgating, lots of cussing, and birds being flipped.

[Hortensis]

41. :) I like to "go high" in my fantasies, which always

leaves my imaginary deep-red GA opponents newly enlightened and urging me to run for the senate. Or something like that.

I think it's okay as long as I don't start "remembering" any incidents.

[BlackSkimmer]

44. Lol!

Perfect!

[AncientAndy]

35. Personally, I'm a fan of political fiction.

[electric_blue68]

31. Well, consider yourself lucky! I haven't either but...

I live in NYC and not in the Republican strongholds of southern Staten Island, some southern parts of Brooklyn, some northeastern parts of the Bronx, some spots in Manhattan, and I don't know that much about Queens - maaaaybe some parts near the city border.

[BlackSkimmer]

45. I live in a red, red city in a red, red county in a purple state.

Most people are still wearing masks.

Even before it became commonplace, no one ever said a word to me about mine.

People mind their own business here, and most are very polite.

I really feel bad for DUers who have all these horrid encounters. Glad I live where I live, despite it being red.

[electric_blue68]

48. Welk, that IS a relief to hear! 👍

[greenjar_01]

38. That's what I want to know about it

[Midnight Writer]

40. Seems like I run into this crap every time I go anywhere. I hate to leave my house.

It's like they are challenging you.

[druidity33]

50. I work in a grocery store...

thank goodness i work in the kitchen. I live in MA in a relatively blue area... it is MA after all. But we get loud obnoxious anti-mask customers every week. I've heard the sheep baah, the, "Covid is a hoax", Vaccinations aren't safe, "I'll quit my job before i let them experiment on me!", and more! My co-workers at the deli counter and the cashiers have more stories than I... but, i can't stress this enough, it's CRAZY out there! People are itching for confrontation.

[Mariana]

51. This week I overheard one babbling on about how "nobody wants to work"

because the store was obviously understaffed and he had to wait in line for a little while to check out. I thought, "No, idiot, the retail workers are finally getting better offers, plus they're so sick of dealing with obnoxious assholes like you, they'd rather do anything else." Everyone ignored him and eventually he shut up.

[Raine]

52. Neither have I and I don't expect I ever will either. 🙄 nt

[AverageOldGuy]

14. Show your vaccination card to buy food?

So . . . what's wrong with that???? Sounds like a solid plan to me.

Show your vaccination card to:
-- Buy gas
-- Get medical care
-- Vote
-- Eat at a restaurant (fast-food drive-thru included)

[Polybius]

30. It's a horrible plan that no one would support

Food is not an option like going to a restaurant is.

[Hortensis]

42. But you may be missing a big plus: some WOULD starve to death.

Somewhere around here on DEMOCRATIC Underground (!!!) is a thread calling for cancelling the apparently not-so unalienable right to life by denying hospital care to the unvaccinated, any overlap with Republican voters strictly coincidental.

[BlackSkimmer]

46. Glad I missed that one.

But I did see one the other day where a DUer advocated for a slow lingering death as a punishment for theft. So there’s that.

[Hortensis]

49. Good heavens! You will if you don't dodge well enough.

For some the topic now raises dependably recurrent passions, guaranteed to increase as Omicron heats up.

I once asked someone how he reconciled that with the holy progressive principle of universal healthcare, but the thread dropped like a rock and I didn't see it again.

[Buckeyeblue]

17. Those same idiots are still waiting for Obama to come get their guns

[Initech]

18. Honestly? I wouldn't be opposed to that.

Fuck anti-vaxxers to the highest of hells!

[Grokenstein]

20. Preppers gonna prep.

Tomatoes!!

[crickets]

28. I love Bob the Angry Flower! 💖

[FirstLight]

22. FWIW, I myself am just choosing to avoid people again...

Fuckit...booster or not, I dont trust anyone. I still mask in the store or choose instacart.

I would rather NOT interact at this point. Im fine doing livestream music. The last time I tried to do an outdoor concert this summer I was having anxiety over the number of people and proximity...regardless of vax status.

The only time I REALLY have to go out is to the dispensary

[Nay]

25. I'm with you. I don't give a damn if I see anybody all winter long. Yeah, I have to go

to the grocery, and I insist upon picking my own fruits and veggies, but I simply no longer care what goes on outside my house. I think I'll kick back and improve my drawing skills inside.

[Mr. Evil]

24. There's no end with these idiots.

TFG could make a video of himself shitting turds into a gold dish and having them subsequently wrapped in gold leaf and selling them as the finest fudge ever produced. These ultra-morons would fall all over themselves to buy as many as possible.

These people are downright imbecilic and embarrassing.

[Elwood P Dowd]

26. Had a lady tell me yesterday that Biden would be forced to step down today

and Trump was going to be re-installed as president. She saw it on Facebook.

[TeamProg]

29. Wingnut media is pushing their made up Leftwing authoritarianism

message so that fascist right wing politicians fit right into the program of authoritarianism that they say is already here in the form of Leftwing authoritarianism.

Charging and imprisoning TFG might not be enough.

Need to go after the Freedom Caucus congressmen as well as McEnany, Clark, Flynn, Stone, Eastman and Meadows.

[madville]

37. What a loon, like there isn't delivery available in most places

Walmart and Amazon will even ship groceries for free if you aren’t in any kind of delivery area. I think some people just find entertainment in the conspiracy theory aspect of it and like to pretend that stuff might happen.

[BlackSkimmer]

47. I know, odd that someone would say such a thing.

[Maru Kitteh]

53. Now if we can convince them all to seal themselves in shipping containers

you know, to hide from the deep state?

That would be AWESOME.